From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: IP1000 gigabit nic driver Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:26:07 +0100 Message-ID: <445144FF.4070703@cantab.net> References: <20060427142939.GA31473@fargo> <20060427185627.GA30871@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linux-kernel , netdev@vger.kernel.org, david@pleyades.net Return-path: Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk ([212.23.3.142]:7315 "EHLO rutherford.zen.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751652AbWD0W0M (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:26:12 -0400 To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20060427185627.GA30871@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org =46rancois Romieu wrote: > David G=C3=B3mez : > [...] >> Does anybody in this list know why the IP1000 driver is not >> included in the kernel ? >=20 > Afaik the driver has never been submitted for inclusion. > At least not on netdev@vger.kernel.org (hint, hint). >=20 > [...] >> The card in question is: >> >> Sundance Technology Inc IC Plus IP1000 >> >> and the driver can be found in sundance web, sources=20 >=20 > URL please ? >=20 >> included. I tried to contact the author but my email >> bounced. >> >> There's no LICENSE in the source, just copyrigth >> sentences in the .c files, so i'm not sure under >> which license it's distributed :-?. >=20 > /me goes to http://www.icplus.com.tw/driver-pp-IP1000A.html >=20 > $ unzip -c IP1000A-Linux-driver-v2.09f.zip | grep MODULE_LICENSE > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); >=20 > It's a bit bloaty but it does not seem too bad (not mergeable "as > is" though). Do you volunteer to test random cra^W^W carefully > engineered code on your computer to help the rework/merging process ? I finally got around to putting a 2nd NIC in my box that has one of thi= s=20 chips and was going to start fixing the driver up and preparing it for=20 submission this weekend. Or I might try rewriting from scratch based o= n=20 the datasheet depending on how horrific the code looks on closer inspec= tion. Not got a whole lot of time to do this so no timescale for completion..= =2E David Vrabel